OT – Scorpions

641Dave · May 30, 2012

Anyone else having a bumper crop of scorpions this year?

I just got around to spraying some tempo around the house and inside around the base boards. I hope that will keep their numbers in check for a while.

Nancy Howell · May 30, 2012

We used to see scorpions at the farm in E. Tx all the time, but since the fire ants moved in about 15 yrs ago we don't see them anymore.

In 20+ yrs at our home in Dallas, we had never seen a scorpion until this March. Had one crawl across the bathroom floor. It didn't survive the trip.

Ralph Bauer · May 30, 2012

Very common here in western Oklahoma. Painful when they bite you in the little toes, but not more than a wasp sting....just not much meat and room for the toe to swell without awful pain...btdt.
Don't seem to be more or less this year. I usually lay mouse or rat glue traps near doors or flush with baseboard, or in lower cabinets as well, check about once a week and we catch them that way, if the cat does not find them first. Seems like they always come in pairs, though.... Watch out for #2, Nancy!!

RayP(MI) · May 30, 2012

That's one of the few pests I don't have!

Mark - IN. · May 30, 2012

No, but I did see an odd critter the other day at home here in northern Indiana. It looked like a red velvet ant and was about 1/2" long but got away between the deck and the house before I could capture it to verify that I saw what it sure looked like I saw. In all of my years, I have never seen one in Indiana ever. I remember them in Georgia for sure and I think possibly in Texas from memory, but never one in Indiana. That was a first here for me. Its awfully warm and dry here and we are supposed to get rain tomorrow throughout the weekend, hopefully. I still don't know where she came from. Imported somehow?

And by the way, no scorpions here. Had plenty in Texas. Not easy to forget them either.

Mark

pat sublett · May 30, 2012

I think the fireants got the ticks also. We were eat up with ticks before the fire ants came. I never see one now. I think the fire ants are not as dangerous as the ticks

old · May 30, 2012

I know we have them here in Missouri but I have never seen one on my place but have seen them around the lake of the Ozarks. Guess maybe they like the septic system lake but not good clean areas LOL.

Wesley Stephens · May 30, 2012

We don't have real scorpions here but a lot of superstitious people refer to skinks as scorpions and swear they are poisonous. There are a lot of old folks around here who think just about anything in nature is poisonous, whether it be animals or plants. If half of the wives' tales like that I've heard in my life were true, I never would have made it to 10 years old. On a serious note, though- how dangerous are the scorpions in the Southwest or are there different types? I've heard they can cause serious trouble if they sting you, but I'd love to know how dangerous they really are.

JMOR · May 30, 2012

(quoted from post at 23:06:55 05/30/12) We don't have real scorpions here but a lot of superstitious people refer to skinks as scorpions and swear they are poisonous. There are a lot of old folks around here who think just about anything in nature is poisonous, whether it be animals or plants. If half of the wives' tales like that I've heard in my life were true, I never would have made it to 10 years old. On a serious note, though- how dangerous are the scorpions in the Southwest or are there different types? I've heard they can cause serious trouble if they sting you, but I'd love to know how dangerous they really are.

hey vary across the country, but in Texas (Nancy, you are not very far NE of Emory & I killed 2 over the weekend here.) they hurt a lot, cause swelling, but are not deadly as far as I know. In some parts of the world (desert Africa?) they are deadly & there is nothing to help a person after a hit by one.

Wesley Stephens · May 30, 2012

maybe they won't do like the coyotes and decide to move east

OT – Scorpions

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